Friday, September 28, 2012

San Francisco police circulated this composite of the Bay Area's
"Zodiac" killer, October 21, 1969. At left is a drawing from witnesses
to the slaying of a cab driver in San Francisco. The amended drawing on
the right was based on further questioning of the witnesses. The suspect
is also linked with four other slaying in Napa and Vallejo, Calif.

Sunset77 Writes:Hi Lynyrd:I think Brian is going to have Howard Davis, author of "The
Zodiac-Manson Connection", on his Star City Radio Show Sunday night (9/3/12). Howard Davis' book focuses on the possibility of Bruce Davis being the Zodiac killer.I've began looking into this and my personal opinion
(so far) is that the chances of Bruce Davis being the Zodiac killer are
nearly zero. The police have fingerprints, a palm print, hair DNA and
saliva DNA from the Zodiac. If any of this matched Bruce Davis, I think
the connection would have been made by now. Also, Bruce Davis had long
hair during the period of the Zodiac killings. His haircan be seen, in one of
the Hendrickson documentaries. He doesn't even remotely resemble the
bespectacled, crew cut, police sketchers made from eyewitnesses.

Well, Zodiac has been an interest of mine for quite some time. And Howard is well known in the Z online community. He's a nice enough guy I guess but, if anything, Bruce is one of the few guys in California at that time that can be ruled out as a suspect - not ruled in!

Like Sunset says, his long hair for starters. And the southern drawl was not evident to Bryan Hartnell, the surviving witness at Lake Berryessa. Zodiac wore a hood for that one, but Hartnell stated he was about 225 lbs in weight.

And Zodiac was a little busy through 1969 killing in the Bay Area, and sending several letters and ciphers to the press, none of which were Manson-like.

IIRC, the tie-in began with a note being found, signed by Zodiac in the room of murder victim Doreen Gaul. She, a 16y.o. Scientologist & her boyfriend (James Sharp) were brutally killed in LA. Bruce is alleged to be one of her boyfriends.

Oh, and there's the (fake) 1978 Zodiac letter to the LA Times, which mentions/threatens Sadie, among others, and has a Beatles reference as a return address on the envelope (1234567 AGCGTH). My money would be on Family hanger-on & pervert, White Rabbit for that one.

Howard did have success pedalling his cornball theories to someone though - Bill Nelson. ..........Nuff said?

there is no way bruce davis was the zodiac. the book written by davis was actually ghost written by bill nelson's son and he writes just about as his papa. don't bother lynyrd unless you want it for a collection. davis (nelson) mainly takes random beatles lyrics and tries to associate them with zodiac murders---just rediculous.

Thanx for the post. I kind of "rushed" this one because I think Brian is going to talk about it on the Radio Show tomorrow night.

Several months ago a person I talk to online that lives near Spahn and visits there occasionally asked me if I thought Bruce Davis was the Zodiac, I had no idea. Whenever Bruce Davis's name comes up, occasionally, the Zodiac killings come up also.

I know very little about the Zodiac, but as I said, the chances of him being Bruce Davis are very slim in my opinion.

It seems to me to very odd the police have never identified and captured the Zodiac. The man left evidence and eyewitnesses all over the place. I also wonder what happened to him. I don't think it's likely a guy would commit murders, send taunting letters to the police and media, then one day just decide to stop. However, I think the BTK killer "laid dormant" for a number of years and was a church deacon.

I met and talked to a few of these types of people when I was in prison, but I'm not an expert on what they do or why they do it.

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